Olga Georgiades Polizoes* has been practicing law since 2001 when she was admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association. She specialises in Corporate, European, Competition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pharmaceuticals, Information Technology and Energy Law. She is the Director of Lexact Solutions Ltd, a company formed for the purpose of providing corporate advice, publishing corporate books, providing practical education on legal and tax issues and corporate translations in more than 50 languages.

She is the holder of a Bachelor of Laws in English Law and French Law from the University of East Anglia, UK (LL.B Hons, 1998) and a Master’s in Laws in European Law with Competition and Telecommunications Law from the University College London (UCL), UK (LL.M, 1999). She is also the holder of a Diploma of French Higher Legal Studies from the University of Robert Schumann, Strasbourg (1997). Olga has trained at the European Commission, Information Society Directorate and holds a Diploma for Teaching Law at University Level from UCL. She is a frequent speaker at various conferences.

She is appointed as Arbitrator by the European Commission for domain name disputes concerning the .eu European top-level domain. She has published a number of articles and reports for major law publishers such as Sweet & Maxwell, Lexis Nexis, Thomson, Kluwer Law International, as well as for the European Commission.